Imagine snipping fresh salad and cooking herbs from your kitchen wreath. Delight your senses and indulge your gardening/entertaining fantasies to create your own magnificent miniature garden in the round. With Teddy Colbert's simple directions, your gift giving can become a living tribute to your ingenuity and artful taste in succulents or flowering and fruit-bearing plants, whether you create your own or order one of hers. Creating wreaths that last for months or years is the astonishing premise behind Teddy's living-wreath concept, perfected over many years of experimentation. One of the wreaths featured in this book is over twelve years old. Making your first succulent wreath the "mother" of numerous wreath offspring is a how-to accomplishment explained in simple directions and step-by-step-photos. From diminutive to awesome, wreath scale can range from just inches to six feet in diameter from a plant list limited only by your imagination. Snip fresh salad and cooking herbs from a wreath in your kitchen or take a cue from Teddy's charming garden alfresco picnic featured in the book. The long table's centerpieces are living salad wreaths, and the cutlery includes wee scissors at each guests' place setting for a memorable "create your own" dining experience. After the picnic, the lettuce plants grow new leaves, just as they would in the garden bed. Create Teddy's living wreaths as fun family projects and community-group gift-making activities. The symbol of the wreath is the circle that brings us together in cooperative celebrations of our relationships, nowhere more eloquently expressed than with Teddy-inspired living wreaths for holidays, marriages and anniversaries, birthdays, sweet sixteens, and religious events on a simple to a grand scale. Indulge in the new gardening hobby you've been waiting for, and share it with your friends! Imagine snipping fresh salad and cooking herbs from your kitchen wreath. Delight your senses and indulge your gardening/entertaining fantasies to create your own magnificent miniature garden in the round. With Teddy Colbert's simple directions, your gift giving can become a living tribute to your ingenuity and artful taste in succulents or flowering and fruit-bearing plants, whether you create your own or order one of hers. Teddy colbert has been a contributing garden writer to the Los Angeles Times since 1976. Magazine articles on her living wreaths have been featured in Los Angeles Times Magazine, Marth Stewart's Living, Better Homes and Garden, Home, Women's Day, Horticulture, House Beautiful, Harrowsmith, Brooklyn Woman, Sunset and Country Living. Terry is a trained horticulturist and journalist, tendering years of botanical experimentation in perfecting her living-wreath concept. She and her husband Ed live in Somis, California. Principal Photographer for The Living Wreath. Introduction The newly rooted succulents look more beautiful than ever, and I am in constant awe at their ability not only to survive but to look better under stress. Their color heightens and their form tends to remain compact when water is minimal and temperatures approach intolerable limits. I ask myself, "Can I ever match that performance?" Because all of the more recent types of living wreaths I have created are modifications of the living succulent wreath, the basics of that original construction are presented here in Part One, and the modifications that support living floral, edible and ornamental wreaths are included in Part Two. Used Book in Good Condition